## One Piece Chapter 912, pages 3-5: Bamboo Hat Village - Chapter: 912 - Pages: 3-5 - Characters: Monkey D. Luffy, Tama, Tenguyama Hitetsu, Portgas D. Ace, X Drake, Kaido, Kurozumi Orochi ### Summary Page 3: Tama's face crumples under Luffy's words. She refuses the truth with everything she has left, screaming, "You're a liar, big broooo!" and then, "Nooooo waaaayyy!" The shock is too much for her already weakened body, and she faints on the spot. Luffy stares down at her and says, "She fainted. Crap." Hitetsu is shaken for another reason as well. Luffy's blunt statement confirms that the Ace Tama knew was the same Ace known to the outside world, and the old man realizes aloud, "So Ace came to Wano, too!" The page turns a child's waiting into grief and links Wano directly to Ace's unfinished promise. Page 4: Hitetsu erupts at Luffy's lack of delicacy. "Are you some sort of demon knave?!" he demands, furious that Luffy dropped the news so harshly. "Even if you speak the truth, why wouldst you say such a thing now?" Luffy answers from his own blunt logic: "But no matter how long she waits, Ace isn't coming." Hitetsu snaps back, "Be that as it may, there are such things as timing and phrasing!" Only then does the conversation shift into introductions. Luffy declares, "I'm Luffy! I'm going to be pirate king some day! Who are you, old man?!" Hitetsu answers, "I am Hitetsu," and the narration identifies him as Swordsmith Hitetsu of Mt. Tengu, Collector of Beautiful Girl Dolls. He calls Luffy a blasted man with no grasp of delicacy, then explains that he, too, is waiting for someone. Page 5: Hitetsu explains what this place used to be. Though only he and Tama remain now, it was once Braided Hat Village. Over a year earlier, a pirate named X Drake joined Kaido's army as a new Headliner, and the village's protectors, five samurai who formed its cornerstone, were killed. The settlement was destroyed. Hitetsu widens the explanation from one village to all of Wano: the only land still prosperous is the Flower Capital, where the shogun Orochi resides. Everywhere else has been decimated by Kaido's army into lawless wastes. The peaceful name "Bamboo Hat Village" begins to feel like a memory preserved after disaster, and Tama's poverty is shown as part of a country's deliberate ruin.